Thanks. I've decided to step back from tyrannical for a moment and see what I
can manage with rules instead as what I'm trying to achieve at the moment is
(or should in theory) be really simple.
I've already hit a hurdle, however, which may be connected to why things weren't
working with tyrannical either.
So this is how I'm currently creating my tags:
tags = {
settings = {
{ names = { "www", "mail", "music" },
layout = { layouts[1], layouts[5], layouts[5] }
},
{ names = { "terms", "docs" },
layout = { layouts[1], layouts[5] }
}}}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
tags[s] = awful.tag(tags.settings[s].names, s, tags.settings[s].layout)
end
When I create a rule now it seems to follow the screen number but not the actual
tag index. For testing purposes I've tried to create a rule for Inkscape and
have both tried the tag property and a callback function:
{ rule = { class = "Inkscape" },
properties = { tag = tags[2][2], },
}
and
{ rule = { class = "Inkscape" },
callback = function (c) c:tags({tags[2][2]}) end
}
If I change the first index of tags[2][2] to tags[1][2] it'll show on screen 1,
and vice versa. But it's ignoring the second index - it always shows on the tag
that's displaying at the time.
Am I missing something obvious here or is this a bug?
Thanks,
Fran
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 04:50:10PM -0400, Elv1313 . wrote:
> Hello Fran,
>
> First of all, yes, Awesome can create tags dynamically, but you have
> to handle that yourself. Tyrannical is only a wrapper on top of
> awful.tag to make dynamic tags easier to manage. For conky, the
> property you are looking for is "sticky", it will tell Awesome/X11 to
> display the app in all tags/workspaces. For the www thing, there is a
> "force_screen" option, but I havn't tested it in a while, but it is
> still in the code, so it should probably still work. The lazy screen
> allocation is a feature to make things more flexible, I guess I should
> add an option to turn it off. I am not currently working on Awesome as
> I am on a long journey since 2 months. If you have an issue after
> that, please open an issue on https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical/ so
> I don't forget.
>
> To create tags without Tyrannical, just call awful.tag.add{name =
> "foo"} from a callback inside a custom awful.rule
>
> Good luck
>
> On 16 September 2015 at 16:04, Fran Thomson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > I'm currently trying to use tyrannical to do some dynamic tagging but I
> > have a couple of problems.
> >
> > 1) It seems to be ignoring the "screen" option. I've got a tag called "www"
> > which begins on init and should just be on screen 1, but when firefox runs
> > (which happens on startup) a second tag called "www" opens up on the other
> > screen.
> >
> > Second problem is Conky - I want it on all tags on screen 2. I've set it as
> > intrusive but how do I specifically say it should go on all screens? I
> > understand how to tell a screen only to accept a certain class of window,
> > but not how to tell a program what tags it should display on - is this just
> > a normal awful rule rather than something I have to do especially through
> > tyrannical?
> >
> > Ideally I want mutt to run in one tag, and ncmpcpp in a different tag, but
> > obviously the class for both of these is the terminal class. I'm trying to
> > run with "urxvt -name" to specify the name of the window. Is there anything
> > I can do in tyrannical to use this name rather than the class or should I
> > just use normal awesome rules?
> >
> > Can awesome create tags on the fly (and if so how?) - as I'm beginning to
> > think tyrannical is more advanced than I really need.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Fran
> >
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